Thinking about chosen names recently but in a very interesting way.
Many of my friends and people my age I see online have more than just the one name on your birth certificate right and I thought this was just a trans(tm) thing as people pick their new names and can't decide sometimes but upon further thinking I have multiple names and so do many other people in a fully different way. I feel like many transphobes would get really confused at the idea of someone having multiple names but don't consider the idea of stage names for singers or usernames for people online that are fully, maybe not purposefully, another name and identity that someone has chosen for themselves.
Like I chose my new legal name because I had to choose something and I don't hate it but I've never like 100% loved it (but also I think most people just kinda don't mind their name) but then I also have accidentally created an online name that has become very personal and very much still My Name and I wonder if youtubers and artists feel the same way. Especially like cis youtubers like Dream, Markiplier, etc. etc. who chose a brand for themselves and probably did not consider that that word would become so personal to them. I just want to hear their thoughts on their chosen names from a cis perspective I think it's cool.
In a very different train of thought this is a very english, american way of thinking and many cultures have completely diffferent feelings and customs in regards to names like last names being used more in Japan and in Nigeria a baby naming ceremony is very custom in where everyone gets to choose a name they want to call the baby so you can end up with 20 different names from multiple people and then still choose your own when you are older, or how people will slightly change their name when they move to fit in culturally, or historically how people would be called by their parents names in formal settings. It's all so fascinating to me
